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Japan’s Beloved Deaf Composer is Neither Deaf Nor a Composer

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Turns out, a beloved deaf composer who ‘wrote’ music for the Olympics is neither deaf nor a composer—and his scandal threatens to derail his country’s figure-skating hopes.

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